pear

Senso (Inglese)

1. An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
2. A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).
3. The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).
4. Choke pear (a torture device).
5. (Jamaica) avocado, alligator pear
6. A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.

Concetti

pera

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pero

caciocavallo

péra

Pyrus communis

pyrus communis

sinonimi

pear tree

fruit

pear-tree

European pear

Pyrus communis

Asian pear

seckel

pippin

plum

russet

gourd

seckel pear

Traduzioni

Birne

🍐

pera

🍐

poire

🍐

peer

🍐

pêra

armut

🍐

αχλάδι

pera

🍐

كمثرى

🍐

poirier

pirum

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hirmî

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karçîn

🍐

pera

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/pɛə/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: pere

Ereditato da inglese antico: pere

Affine saterfriesisch: Peere

Affine olandese: peer

Affine danese: pære

Affine francese: poire

Affine tedesco: Birne

Affine islandese: pera

Affine svedese: päron

In summary

From Middle English pere, from Old English pere, from Proto-West Germanic *peru, from Vulgar Latin pira, originally the plural of Latin pirum but reconstrued as a feminine singular, ultimately a loanword from an unknown Mediterranean substrate source.
Cognate with Scots peer (“pear”), Saterland Frisian Peere, Pere (“pear”), West Frisian par (“pear”), Dutch peer (“pear”), Danish, Greenlandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk pære (“pear”), Faroese, Icelandic pera (“pear”), Swedish päron (“pear”), German Birne (“pear”), Luxembourgish Bier, Bir (“pear”), Vilamovian biyn (“pear”), Yiddish באַר (bar, “pear”), French poire (“pear”).